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Plums Variety Selector: Which One For Your Garden

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If: Toughest cold hardiness → Early, around August or Toughest cold hardiness → Not sure, just give me the safest all-round choice or Not sure, just give me the safest all-round choice

CzarAGM

Rated H6 for cold hardiness and named as less susceptible to frost damage than most other cultivars, which matters because plums blossom early enough to be a genuine frost gamble most years. The article's safest default for an early crop, ripening in August.

If: Toughest cold hardiness → Later, around September

Marjorie's SeedlingAGM

On the same cold-hardiness footing as Czar, with almost the same frost-resistance wording, but ripens a month later in September rather than August, so picking between them can come down to when you want the crop. It also carries general disease resistance alongside its frost-resistant blossom.

If: Dodge frost by flowering late instead

Blue TitAGM

Avoids frost an entirely different way to Czar and Marjorie's Seedling: it's self-fertile and flowers late enough to miss spring frosts rather than tolerating cold outright, a genuine third frost-avoidance mechanism based on timing, not hardiness.

If: Compact tree for a small garden

VictoriaAGM

Usually grafted onto a semi-dwarfing rootstock, keeping the tree compact, a genuinely good fit for a small or medium garden rather than just the default everyone reaches for. It flowers early, though, so it's named at risk from spring frosts like most plums.

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